focus on people not finance the dispels of protesters near on the for fear of europe as it used to host the g twenty summit we'll have the latest for me in just a moment. also this hour to syria says it's ready to implement the demands of the arab league to end the crisis but only if sanctions against a sense regime are lifted. the f.b.i. joins a halloween celebration is by sharing its own good stories releasing surveillance footage starring anna chapman and other alleged russian spies our top stories this hour.

international news and comment live from moscow this is o.t. with you twenty four hours a day good to have you with us this hour thousands of anticapitalist some notching in the french riviera ahead of the g. twenty summit in groups of international activists are urging the leaders of the world's top economies to focus on people and not finance daniel bushell is following the protests for us let's cross like him now daniel what's happening at the moment just how big is this protest. it's a big protest it really you know expose you don't you quote wall street movements over in the states and the anti euro anti e.u. sentiments and rallies that are going on in europe protesters say there's around fifteen thousand people far more than we've seen in previous trying to e.u. rallies here in europe now they've come from all over the world not just from from frozen greece and spain but also from places like canada and even the middle east they're really drawing attention to the fact that more attention is being paid to

bankers and finances rather than the people below this slogan saying that people should be first not finance mulching his policies they say don't work for people they've brought together leading trade unions also organizations like greenpeace but we've got the states getting into it from all debts of the euro on the verge of collapse but this is also about other interventions in the likes of libya which they say has been wasting money which is desperately needed here back at home now we've spoken to some of the protesters here's what they have to say. i'm here because i don't say get easy for people to. just be don't trust. all these night. due to. the fact that if you just. money in the world are just. running out of people all the governors of states in place world that decided they own the world and they

control what it should be we believe the people have their word should have their word trap something to say. well daniel you're saying is a big turnout in comparison to what we've seen in previous protests a big turnout there in the south of france so there must be major security operations in place for this summit tell us more about that. yes there's a chaotic scene this helicopters overhead of the moment there's really lots of shouting lots of noise is police coming in here police on every side street very heavily armed with lots of protective gear just in case things get violent as they have done in previous protests now france has mounted a military style law downfall molds around to stop really any disruption of the g twenty summit which is due to start later this week they've caused major disruption roads have been stopped and blocked off for malls around people here have to have

badges even the local residents to get to their homes they have just no question of anyone coming in by train for example they've been canceled this elite areas more used if you like to the red carpets and the point heels of the cannes film festival they're really not used to this sort of aggressive behavior in these mulches you know marching through the town though this has led as i say to violence and the possible keep you updated as they continue through nice ok thanks very much indeed daniel bushell there in the south of france well coming up later this hour baseless claims. that its president elect to close the u.s. controlled base in his country say its presence there is putting them at risk. for say u.s. versus u.s. go washington curbs funding to the u.n. cultural body after it granted a historic membership to palestine. and the information war against syria stop

funding and supplying weapons to the armed gangs claiming to be the opposition and lift sanctions against president assad's regime because of the demands put forth by damascus in exchange for implementing the changes suggested by the arab league international but he has urged the regime to start with the opposition parties to cilia reports. the protests government crackdowns and violence have continued to play parts of syria the capital damascus is still largely sheltered from but beneath the calm many will remind you that in syria was most certainly have ears there more but at the country's intelligence service has political clout in syria that's one of the state's secret and says the unrest began in march protesters have accused them of violent interrogations. before i was chased going to arrested by security forces in a very tiny cell beat me severely damaging my back and me here which i couldn't make use of soul of receiving money for taking to the streets ages of america in

israel after forty eight hours of detention and torture it took all my money and belongings and threw me out into the street. sitting in glory is a lawyer who deals with detention cases she says the influence of the security police extends even into the court room. we have three authorities in the country the legal authority the legislative and executive but it is the security police who make the real decisions the court judge for their decision and i feel sorry for the judge because he is not independent. in court he believes this constant state of fear is thanks to decades of living under the emergency law in place since one thousand nine hundred sixty three and two thousand and eleven assad repealed it to appease anti regime protesters this man who has worked for the more but not for twenty seven years sustained gunshot wounds in what he says was an ambush by a group of terrorists we asked him about people's fear of the mob but not accusations that they are behind the violence detentions and torture. this is the

wrong idea we are protecting our people but the terrorists shoot civilians and shoot us and then accuse security forces of doing such things accusations that we instill fear also wrong if this person has political activity without any intention of harming the country and he is free to do this and no one will chase him. if he has links from terrorists and works against the country naturally he will be brought to justice we pose the same questions to the deputy foreign minister you know depends on the people you talk to if you ask me as a citizen or senior i do it in front of you i have never ever been asked by the security or any body for something which i am doing those who fear are either people who. illegally. or carry arms or put themselves in suspicious words all this right here is a very open and colorful slice of syria but when it comes to talking about security services like everywhere it is followed by intrigue but here their presence is so

widely felt that it's not quite possible to determine just what local feel is normal. and when twenty percent of the population is rumored to be in the intelligence service it's no wonder many prefer to keep their voices down in the light of day but within a crowd that's here is temporarily forgotten oh yes i'll take to the streets again and again i'll raise my voice and i'll fear nothing and no one will want freedom of expression but we get nothing only bashar al assad and security enjoyed it as for us we are nothing why is that. r t. beirut based political analyst told r.t. the syrian regime fell out of favor with foreign powers which is pressuring president assad to leave. i think it's a conspiracy by regional power they wanted to change the regime of bashar al assad

they wanted different regime different government with different had and that's why you can see the regional power hasn't been friendly to the situation is taking place inside syria actually some of this country has been funneling weapons and money and certain ideology to topple the regime of president assad the president of syria acknowledges there is opposition in the country and he extend his hand to reconsolidation within the his country for those people who are asking for change and that's why today they have a constitutional reform but there is an external power or what they say in opposition and exile those are backed by the western powers some persian gulf country. western interference in the arab spring has left the middle east and north africa deeply wounded that's according to historian william engel and the full interview is coming your way this hour here in r.t.

in the meantime here's a short pretty funny. part of me is a far worse shape in libya had the highest living standard in all of africa before the bombings of nato today the country is in ruins because of those bombs not because of gadhafi. the economy of egypt is in dire straits the military remains in control they were good military high command of egypt was sitting in the pentagon when the reports kicked off and waited for a signal from the pentagon when to return and take control of those words. palestinians have failed to try to join other u.n. agencies within weeks following a trial but you know where they were granted full membership but recognition comes at a price with the u.n. cultural are losing nearly a quarter of its funding to give us that support the response goes criticize washington's decision saying it won't help restore a climate necessary for the resumption of peace negotiations in the middle east the

vote was called a month the palestine applied to the security council for full recognition washington watcher carmen russell's the chance king says the nation's chances for statehood bleak but it may have success in other un bodies. this is the first step i think in a series of steps towards u.n. membership you know the next is going to be more education and cultural organizations and then pretty soon i will you know the you could see membership in the world health organization which they will decide they can decide to accept palestine as a member just by a simple majority vote as you know still could of so you know that but however as far as getting statehood you know you want obviously you want the u.s. obviously has a veto in there and just there's no way that they're not going to be using the veto in terms of stopping statehood itself so but at the same time i mean it up to that point there's a lot to benefit the law for policy and a benefit for members ship and a lot of the different agencies this halloween saw the f.b.i.

tell its own story it released surveillance footage of anna chapman and other alleged russian sleeper agents uncovered in two thousand and ten he says the video shows a spy ring but he's put all of our reports now from moscow. perhaps spookiest over all is that this footage doesn't contain any actual spooks there was no charges of espionage leveled against the ten people who were arrested in the united states in june of last year instead they pled guilty to conspiracy to act as a tool for agents of the foreign governments now the case these videos that have been released coping stories was released on halloween something which did raise a few eyebrows however the f.b.i. how they shoot us that this is just purely coincidental now the footage shows members of this alleged spy ring. doing such things as shopping in macy's and using laptops in popular branches of book stores the f.b.i.

saying that operation story sends a clear message to any foreign spies wanting to operate in the united states other critics have suggested this the release of these documents is something of a publicity stunt. all over was here with the details now you can follow the story of russia's patel website for the moment party dot com. and later on the cover spy literally turned itself into a trademark i should say also becoming a star media traction. but the only story there are a lot of moments you can find out about a russian paraglider who miraculously escaped the halls of death safely off to come in with a vulture in. the

newly elected president of. the us air force base in his country saying it poses a threat to his own nation's security america's least for the menace facility now and it's unlikely to be renewed after twenty fourteen when the current agreement expires. he explains. this news came hardly as a surprise because the presence of servicemen in kurdistan is a highly charged political issue and every curve is president how to address it in one form or another to the mass arab race is a fairly large facility that was opened in kurdistan in two thousand and one to support military operations in afghanistan it represents the shortest and the most efficient route to deliver weapons and military personnel to kabul it was initially named after a new york firefighter who was killed in this hundred eleven attacks later that he was changed but it's still colloquially referred to as that gateway to haven't

because most of the u.s. servicemen who pass through monastic air base are on their way to combat in afghanistan now according to the current room and believe all of the of these air base costs american taxpayers around two hundred million u.s. dollars and the current agreement iran still meet two thousand and fourteen when you present them almost back to a time by of who won last sunday's elections rip almost sixty percent of the votes that that his government is going to honor the existing agreement but they have no intention of stabbing release of the base beyond two thousand and fourteen he said that the presence of foreign troops in kurdistan does not serve the country's national interest and may actually compromise the country's security in fact he said bed time does not want to be a target for a tourist trikes calming from the anime of the united states back in two thousand and six previous man who was killed by want to be your servicemen at the checkpoint

to base down there were rumors the american pilots are dumping air fuel on the villages and jason to the air base so many people would like americans to go if you years ago rushes in to negotiate and reach an agreement with the kurdish authorities on the closure of the base and the problem and even passed a bill authorizing bit of fiction of a base but the decision was reversed whether or not the decision will be implemented this time around is yet to be seen. and you can check out her twitter feed for the latest updates on that story and her in one of the some of the latest he says the u.s. military uniform is rushing off the shelves of markets across the kerry gets capital in reaction to the likely closure of the less space and there's plenty more from her and other correspondents on artie's general to think. trish a has passed the baton of the european central bank to italy's money or the

ninety eight years as the head took in the recession and europe's debt crisis and we're still rumbling on his successor is going to have to hit the ground running alger claim a professor of economics at the erasmus university in rotterdam thinks it will be immensely difficult for twenty two can continue and handle the crisis we think that actually will be more proves. i don't think he will try to or very street or we're all in on. assignment to control inflation. being reluctant to even approach governments were interested. however you seem to have your. brain crunches on the great political pressure and no one knows what's going on not one of those solutions are brought forward to the latest europe will do their job a great view of uncertainty and so it's very hard to tell how do these credit real

hand or the situation. it may be good he will also do what pre-show do we want to call unusual steps. tried. and almost inevitable price. meanwhile the e.u.'s hard bargain rescue plan for greece's economy comes under a real threat as the country's prime minister pledges to hold a referendum on the deal and r.t. asked you what behind the surprise decision were you could log on to r.t. talk want to have your say let's have a quick look and see how the vote looks so far well most of you say and that's thirty six percent think the greek prime minister has made a wise step to let the population have their say thirty percent believe the move is just pure populism to conflate protests and just over a fifth of voters say that is looking for a pathway to an honorable retirement while twelve percent of you think that the decision as a knife in that he used back because to hear from me or not come. you

know people at wall street movement known as seventh week is drawing ever more university students into its ranks they're frustrated by the record cost of student loans and highly unemployment and for many of them it will mean a lot of debt as all of these reports they called the american dream because you have to be asleep to believe a student debt is crushing the american dream for millions of students and college graduates it's this thing that eventually you'll have to kind of face but until then you kind of pretend it doesn't exist because if you did then it's it's a bit daunting that the majority of youth are only able to. pay for college unless you have rich birds for the first time in the u.s. total student debt has surpassed one trillion dollars now more than the nation's credit card debt this as unemployment amongst college graduates is at an all time high president obama recently announced his plans easton alone that we're going to

make it easier for you to have one thing. at a better interest rate and this will cost but it will cost taxpayers a guy but it will save you money and it will save you trouble but his plan won't help millions of americans already drowning in debt and it excludes private loans which is where many students run into trouble due to their high interest rates move on dot org launched a petition to eliminate student debt which has garnered over six hundred forty seven thousand signatures if you put more money. they're going to spend and that will create demand it will create economic growth and it will create jobs robert applebaum says bailing out students rather than banks will stimulate the economy i put more cash in the pockets of the educated middle class they're not starting businesses they're not ours they're not. they're not starving. children in other developed countries getting a financial education isn't such

a financial burden. you have free tuition in france. sweden finland they don't do anything with universities and when they do pay the price tag isn't as shocking as it is in the u.s. twenty one countries in europe for which we have data. there's only four who have to have more than two hundred dollars compared that to an average of over eight thousand for public and over twenty eight thousand dollars for private u.s. colleges cost much more the average schools are charging thirty five to forty five thousand dollars a year and we myself personally i work at two universities and i net about. twenty eight thousand dollars a year and it's not getting better over the past few decades to asian has skyrocketed over four hundred percent this year alone the cost of college shot up over eight percent occupy wall street protesters camped out here and across the

nation say this is yet another example of rising inequality but millions shackled to college debt for years and in many cases decades in washington artsy. well let's have a look at some other international headlines in brief before corrina joins us with the business news a passenger plane has made an emergency landing on its fairly important potent seven six seven run by a polish i was about to land on its way to new jersey when it damaged wheel was discovered across circle for an hour to burn excess fuel before learning one of the more than two hundred thirty people on board was hurt. more than one hundred ten protesters have been arrested in a pool after staging a demonstration against chinese rule excels gathered for a prayer meeting and began charging anti china slogans and demanding independence from to pull the show through tens of thousands of tibetans but authorities say they will not tolerate any protests. china has successfully launched a spacecraft from the gobi desert in the country's northwest is expected to join

another module within days three hundred forty three kilometers above the surface if successful it will be the first chinese docking in orbit and the launch is considered a milestone in beijing's preparations for its own space station by the end of the decade. with some of our main news stories in about. six minutes with the latest business now with kareena stay with us for that. thank you bill hello welcome to business here in r.t. with me clean and i can thank for joining this hour global markets plunge into another round of volatile trading as uncertainty comes rushing back at the prime minister of greece unexpectedly called for a referendum on e.u. plans to bailed out this country last week european leaders agreed to hand athens one hundred thirty billion euros bailout and a fifty percent and wipe down its enormous debt but the greek move has cast doubts

on whether the deal can go ahead the referendum could be held as soon as next january but that's when you can r.b.c. capital markets believe greece has played a nasty trick on that. week's summit it was a serious hard line from european leaders saying there would not be a hard to fold coming out of greece with this announcement it calls into question whether that really will be the case or not greece has sizable redemptions that it has to meet of december that it requires payments of not just the current trench of credit for the funding but also the subsequent trend and even then it's a clearly could be to scream and so and clearly this is this announcement this is not going to help the center in two or three years and you both washington and brussels when you make those decisions in the short term we're going to see a lot more volatility a lot more uncertainty a lot more seesawing as we have seen over the past week or fortunately. that have a look at how the markets reacted to what's happening in greece bald prices down europe's on europe's debt crisis like so it is trading at one thousand dollars per

barrel and brand is that over one hundred six dollars about us our stocks in the u.s. long bonds used a greece is called a referendum on his rescue package shook investors confidence and europe's efforts to contain its debt crisis the slide heads and the vendor off to a poor start following one of the best october's on record the dow jones fell one hundred seventy two points with twenty eight of its thirty. components of the red european markets dive as well the footsie down two point nine percent actually nearly three percent and the dax is nearly five percent in the red shows the single worst decline with credit agricole down eleven and a half percent societe generale falling over fourteen percent the broccolis down. and russian markets and of the trading day lower as well the r.t.s. lost five percent denies it's closed just under three percent in the red earlier trading has been suspended otherwise it's due to technical reasons now let's have

a look at some of the individual families and most energy majors were down on cipro crude with gazprom losing more than two percent banking stocks were no exception would be to be under four percent in the red and russia's telecommunications major ross telecom bought the trends of the company approved a buyback program work half a million dollars. capital flight from russia is expected to double by the end of the year to seventy billion dollars the central bank says investors are leaving emerging nations unnamed global economic uncertainty the performance is still expected to be better than two thousand eight hundred thirty billion dollars left russia in the fourth quarter alone. what people are looking for why people are moving the money out piece of the general market uncertainty which is clearly hitting the population and in that environment what you have enough and why they're concerned about the flows is the impact on currency because

a good sport a second wave i would call internal compass right which is where the population would say it's really in france they will move to the stronger currency in the world and in this case be a hard currency so they will switch to rubles to dollars with euros the good thing for russia this time around i suppose the case of people from eight or nine of the ruble depreciated to have a big piece that you could do that within the banking system so we shouldn't expect the run of the banks but there will be around become see if this continues because people are very quick to move away from congress in this case the threat of civil. russia's direct investment fund is going to strike five billion dollars worth of deals by the end of the year that's according to the founder of the fun but in my brief here who says they are now considering around twenty investment projects projects and stephen gaghan from skulk a foundation beliefs it's the right time for russia to attract cash from abroad what's happened since two thousand and eight and the subsequent issues of are now occurring in europe as well as the situation in the american economy i believe

american investors are taking a fresh look at russia because they realize that there are problems and mean to be an emerging economies there are problems and in developed economies alike and so russia with very low debt load and a very strong economy is more attractive than it perhaps was two years ago simply because of the course of the world developed significant problems that in the meantime. that's a business update for this hour of join me at twenty two minutes past the hour with more business news here on r.t. .

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